Doreen Sheridan

Purgatory by Guido Eekhaut is the second novel in the acclaimed, bestselling Euro-crime series featuring Chief Inspector Walter Eekhaut, which began with the Hercule Poirot Award winner Absinthe. Veteran Chief Inspector Walter Eekhaut has a problem with most authority. The Brussels police force that previously employed him wasn’t too unhappy to see him go, but…

Shamed is the gripping thriller from New York Times bestselling author Linda Castillo. Kate Burkholder is on the case when a devastating murder exposes an Amish family’s tortured past. The eleventh book in the critically acclaimed Kate Burkholder series finds our formerly Amish chief of police racing against time and operating on a severe lack…

Seventy-something-year-old librarian Cleo Watkins is too well-bred to have a nemesis, but if she did, it would probably be the irrepressible Dixie Honeycutt. For the past four decades, Cleo has been trying to get Dixie to return one very, very overdue book to the Catalpa Springs Public Library. But Dixie has outfoxed her at every…

Under the Cold Bright Lights by Garry Disher is an Australian police procedural featuring Alan Auhl, a once-retired homicide detective who has been recruited to return to the force to work cold cases. Acting Sergeant Alan Auhl retired from the Melbourne Homicide Division years ago, but he was recently recruited back to man the police…

Betrayal in Time is the fourth book in Julie McElwain’s Kendra Donovan series. Donovan’s adventures in nineteenth-century England continue when she is called upon to investigate the murder of a spymaster. My only regret in picking up this novel is that I hadn’t been able to read the three others in the series first. And…

In The Dead Girl in 2A by Carter Wilson, Jack Buchanan and Clara Stowe recognize each other when they’re seated side-by-side on a business flight to Denver, but neither can place where they know the other person from. Clara then admits she is flying to Colorado to kill herself, and quickly disappears when they arrive…

Never Look Back by Alison Gaylin is an absorbing, addictive tale of psychological suspense with a Serial-esque podcast twist. Quentin Garrison is not a man who puts himself first. Raised, if one can call it that, by a junkie mom, he’s embarked on adulthood mistrustful of others but is finally thawing under the combined attention…